Job Title: Manager, Engineering (K8)
Job Location: Remote, India

Acquia empowers the worlds most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, & IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose & deploy digital products & services that engage customers, enhance conversions, & help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report & rated a leader by the analyst community. Acquias CoE is a Great Place to Work certified organization. We are Acquia. We are building for the future & we want you to be a part of it!

Does running thousands of machines in the cloud without ever logging into a single box sound like the future to you? Do you like building resilient systems where even a second of downtime is unacceptable? Do you like architecting applications that can scale horizontally to perform billions or trillions of monthly operations? Do you want to power websites for clients that matter? Do you want to make a difference & have the power to design features & quickly see them pushed live to production?

Our cloud engineering team applies a variety of programming languages & technologies to solve many interesting architecture & scalability challenges. Although we run PHP & MySQL at an extensive scale for our Drupal customers, on the backend were building scalable systems, automation & stack enhancements in everything from Ruby to PHP to Go, & storing data in everything from MySQL to DynamoDB.

If you enjoy the thrill of riding the rapids & love the sense of accomplishment after having navigated tricky obstacles, then Acquia will be a continually exciting experience for you.

Summary:

Acquia is looking for a manager to lead engineers with systems & software responsibilities to work on our Platform K8s & Persistent Data (think Databases/Filesystems) teams. The ideal candidate strives to lead an impactful team & recognizes their work is never done. The candidate also is comfortable working in a large organization, operates as a true teammate, has technical expertise to ask the right questions, is a thoughtful communicator, & is a leader with compassion. This leader should be highly organized & pushing for success through effective prioritization, retrospecting on continuous improvements, & inspiring change. Technical experience in things like Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Docker, & Jenkins are desired. Conceptual knowledge of DevOps, domain-driven concepts, & infrastructure-as-code are also effective.

Responsible for:

• Experience leading teams & people responsible for systems & software
• Knowledge of Agile practices & software development lifecycle methodologies
• Experience with effective product engineering practices
• Familiar with project management concepts
• Ability to inspire change through identifying bottlenecks, resolving blockers, & leading improvement opportunities
• Experience with quality engineering, DevOps, & CI/CD
• Ability to form good partnerships with Product Managers, Product Owners, & other departments   

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Active listening skills
• Effective communicator
• Leadership skills & a positive, can-do attitude
• Emphasizes work/life balance & team morale
• Ability to break down complex problems into smaller, concrete steps & outcomes
• Committed to a positive culture
• Background in technically relevant areas
• Facilitating cross-team teamwork through RFCs, reviews, & historical work
• Background in systems maintenance, automation, release management, & testing strategies

Job Qualifications:

• 8+ years of working within a team focused on cloud systems & development (Any GPL- GO, Ruby, PHP, etc)
• 3+ years (senior) hands-on experience managing teams & building similar solutions
• Experience with Kubernetes & AWS, especially RDS & EFS
• Proven delivery skills, working with software engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related subject area preferred.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.

Nice to have skills:

• Desire to perform technical work on an as-needed basis
• Desired to have previous people management experience

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.